A ratings based poisson model for World Cup soccer simulation

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 993-998

  Dyte, D ^a   Clarke, S R ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Simulation; Soccer; Sports; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOCCER; TEAM RATINGS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0034248762     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600997     Document Type: Article

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